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FCS: generation on the fly is all well and good, except that
1) it adds calculation cycles to every line read... loads of them.
2) they need to be internally stored anyway if it's going to be looked for.
3) the current methods (space delimited text being most common) tend towards human readability. anything not stored is not human readable...
 
FCS: generation on the fly is all well and good, except that
1) it adds calculation cycles to every line read... loads of them.
2) they need to be internally stored anyway if it's going to be looked for.
3) the current methods (space delimited text being most common) tend towards human readability. anything not stored is not human readable...
 
Yes, although:

1) The amount of time is truly negligible and is getting smaller (I do this in my own code);
2) Looking for two-letter codes in a string is about as difficult and time-consuming as looking at the UWP;
3) Nobody is suggesting that people refer to the data files themselves to find information - the whole point of the data files is for software to do stuff with the data.
 
Yes, although:

1) The amount of time is truly negligible and is getting smaller (I do this in my own code);
2) Looking for two-letter codes in a string is about as difficult and time-consuming as looking at the UWP;
3) Nobody is suggesting that people refer to the data files themselves to find information - the whole point of the data files is for software to do stuff with the data.
 
In general, if it isn't a human-readable data-format, it's worse than useless for me; I don't game anywhere NEAR my computer (across the city, some 30 miles away, is typical), and few people write utilities for PDA's.
 
In general, if it isn't a human-readable data-format, it's worse than useless for me; I don't game anywhere NEAR my computer (across the city, some 30 miles away, is typical), and few people write utilities for PDA's.
 
So you're saying that you want the software to use human-readable data files so that you can print them out and use them away from your computer? This seems somewhat backwards; as I said, nobody is suggesting you use the data files for that purpose, but instead use the data files to generate other, more appealing and readily useable printouts. I'm not saying that a non-human-readable data format is wrong, I'm simply saying that, as far as structured input to computer programs goes, formats like XML etc could be good choices.
 
So you're saying that you want the software to use human-readable data files so that you can print them out and use them away from your computer? This seems somewhat backwards; as I said, nobody is suggesting you use the data files for that purpose, but instead use the data files to generate other, more appealing and readily useable printouts. I'm not saying that a non-human-readable data format is wrong, I'm simply saying that, as far as structured input to computer programs goes, formats like XML etc could be good choices.
 
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